This modern classic, the leading volume in the highly popular Secrets Series, has been completely revised and updated in this exciting new edition. Key questions and answers in surgery set the glue on the information in a way unlike any other text presentation. Socrates was right:: the best way to learn is to ask the right questions, and Surgical Secrets provides all the right answers.
I.GENERAL TOPICS 1. Are You Ready for Your Surgery Rotation? 2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 3. Evaluation and Treatment of Cardiac Dysrhythmias 4. How to Think about Shock 5. What is Pulmonary Insufficiency? 6. Why Get Arterial Blood Gases? 7. Fluids, Electrolytes, Gatorade, and Sweat 8. Nutritional Assessment and Enteral Nutrition 9. Parenteral Nutrition 10. What Does Postoperative Fever Mean? 11. Oxygen Monitoring and Assessment 12. Central Venous and Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring 13. Surgical Wound Infection 14. Priorities in Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen 15. Surgical Infectious Disease
II. TRAUMA 16. Initial Assessment 17. Posttraumatic Hemorrhagic Shock 18. Traumatic Brain Injury 19. Spinal Cord Injuries 20. Penetrating Neck Trauma 21. Blunt Thoracic Trauma 22. Penetrating Thoracic Trauma 23. Blunt Abdominal Trauma 24. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma 25. Hepatic and Biliary Trauma 26. Splenic Trauma 27. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injury 28. Trauma to the Colon and Rectum 29. Pelvic Fractures 30. Upper Urinary Tract Injuries 31. Lower Urinary Tract Injury and Pelvic Trauma 32. Extremity Vascular Injuries 33. Facial Lacerations 34. Basic Care of Hand Injuries 35. Burns 36. Pediatric Trauma
III. ABDOMINAL SURGERY 37. Appendicitis Can Be Tough to Diagnose 38. Gallbladder Disease 39. Pancreatic Cancer 40. Acute Pancreatitis 41. Diagnosis and Therapy of Chronic Pancreatitis 42. Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices 43. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 44. Esophageal Cancer 45. Acid-Peptic Ulcer Disease 46. Small Bowel Obstruction 47. Intestinal Ischemia 48. Diverticular Disease of the Colon 49. Acute Large Bowel Obstruction 50. Inflammatory Bowel Disease 51. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding 52. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding 53. Colorectal Polyps 54. Colorectal Carcinoma 55. Anorectal Disease 56. Inguinal Hernia
IV. ENDOCRINE SURGERY 57. Hyperparathyroidism 58. Hyperthyroidism 59. Thyroid Nodules and Cancer 60. Surgical Hypertension
V. BREAST SURGERY 61. Breast Masses 62. Primary Therapy for Breast Cancer
VI. OTHER CANCERS 63. What Is Cancer? 64. Melanoma 65. Parotid Tumors 66. Hodgkins Disease and Malignant Lymphomas 67. Neck Masses
VII. VASCULAR SURGERY 68. What Is Atherosclerosis? 69. Arterial Insufficiency 70. Carotid Disease 71. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 72. Venous Disease 73. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory
VIII. CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY 74. Coronary Artery Disease 75. Mitral Stenosis 76. Mitral Regurgitation 77. Aortic Valvular Disease 78. Thoracic Surgery for Non-neoplastic Disease 79. Lung Cancer 80. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule 81. Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm
IX. PEDIATRIC SURGERY 82. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis 83. Intestinal Obstruction of Neonates and Infants 84. Imperforate Anus 85. Tracheoesophageal Malformations 86. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia 87. Abdominal Tumors 88. Congenital Cysts and Sinuses of the Neck
XI. UROLOGY 93. The Surgical Approach to Infertility 94. Urinary Calculus Disease 95. Renal Cell Carcinoma 96. Bladder Cancer 97. Prostate Cancer 98. Urodynamics and Voiding Dysfunction 99. Pediatric Urology
XII. HEALTH CARE 100. Can Health Care Be Reformed? 101. Risks of Bloodborne Disease 102. Ethics in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit